You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.