Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

There is no magician like love.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.