There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.