Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.