Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.