Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.