Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.