Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.