Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

It loves more readily than it hates.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.