National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no matter what else happens in life, you will always have your self-respect.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.