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.

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

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.

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

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

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.