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

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.

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

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.