For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

There are words which cut like steel.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.