Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

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.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.