One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.