In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.