What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy..

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority..

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life ….

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition..

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else..

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary….

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!.

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give ….

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird ….

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?.

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they….

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions….

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morn….

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst..

Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered….

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not ….

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?.