Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.