We are made kind by being kind.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.