Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

All perfection is melancholy.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.