“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
“You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.”
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.”
“Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.”
“Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.”
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
“I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
“One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.”
“Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.”
“It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.”
“The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”
“Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
“A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
“'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.”
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.”