A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.