Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

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.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

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.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.