There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.