"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"Let your performance do the thinking."
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
"Look twice before you leap."
"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."
"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself."
"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
"Who has words at the right moment?"
"Conventionality is not morality."
"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me."
"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
