The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

It loves more readily than it hates.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.