Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

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.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

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.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.