When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.