The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Idleness induces caprice.