I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.
I always think the flowers can see us and know what we’re talking about.
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
Hurt? He’ll never be hurt – he’s made to hurt other people.[said Godfrey]
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
Heaven help us! said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
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.
