Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

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

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.