Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

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.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

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