Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.