The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence!
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.
Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.