“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”

“I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

“Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.”

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”

“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.”

“College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em.”

“A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”