Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.