Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Kindness is always fashionable.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.