When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to give off no utterances; but a man in the world of writing - one with a pen that shall stop men to listen to it, whether they wish to or not.