The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.