Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.