Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.