... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

An author departs; he does not die.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.