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| Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | | Uncategorized | |
| Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution | | Uncategorized | |
| Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. | | Conscience; Growth | |
| Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. | | Uncategorized | |
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| People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. | | Uncategorized | |
| People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. | | Uncategorized | |
| Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relation of the least-instructed human beings... | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking | | Friendship | |
| Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! | | Uncategorized | |
| Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? | | Uncategorized | |
