Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!