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

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.