“A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.”

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

“We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.”

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.”

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

“One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”