Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.