There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart