It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

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

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.