The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.