If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.