It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

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

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.