It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

The world is full of contradiction.