You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?