It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.