To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

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

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.