Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.