Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

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

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.