“Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.”
“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.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.”
“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet”
“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.”
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
“You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.”
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?”
“Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.”
“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.”
“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”
“The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.”
“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”