The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.