If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

Humankind cannot stand reality.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.