“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
“No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.”
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.”
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
“Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.”
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.”
“People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.”
“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.”
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.”
“What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.”
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
“One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.”
“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
“Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.”
“Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?”
“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”