Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.