All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.