She was a worthy creature, notwithstanding, only very unpleasant if one happened to step on the toes of a pet ignorance.

Mary soon discovered that there was no profit in talking with her on the subjects she loved most: plainly she knew little about them, except at second hand--that is, through the forms of other minds than her own.

Such people seem intended for the special furtherance of the saints in patience; being utterly unassailable by reason, they are especially trying to those who desire to stand on brotherly terms with all men, and so are the more sensitive to the rudeness that always goes with moral stupidity; intellectual stupidity may coexist with the loveliness of an angel.

It is one of the blessed hopes of the world to come, that there will be none such in it.

But why so many words?
I say to myself, Will one of such as I mean recognize his portrait in my sketch?
Many such have I met in my young days, and in my old days I find they swarm still.