Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.