See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

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

I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.