The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.