I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?