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There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.