It is never too late to be what you might have been.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

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.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful..

Each position has its corresponding duties.

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Rome -- the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

It is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.