There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind