"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.