Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.