One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

In the one branch he most needed

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.