Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.