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

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.