There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

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.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

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

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.