Blame is safer than praise

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.