Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.