In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle o….

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the oth….

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion..

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods..

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradictio….

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never..

Modesty and chastity are twins.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds..

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense..

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept th….

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly sugges….

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it..

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embi….

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more..

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty..

Opinion has ever been stronger than law..

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel..

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I thi….

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not j….

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather..