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.

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.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

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

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

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.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.