The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious.

My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.