the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.