I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.