When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes.
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid, – too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others.
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme our fear has sketched out. Fear is almost always haunted by terrible dramatic scenes, which recur in spite of the best-argued probabilities against them.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
