Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Children are what the mothers are.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.