Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.