I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.