Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.