To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

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.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.