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

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

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

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

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.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.