Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

People have never lost what they think they have.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.