You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.