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

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

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

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.