"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision"
"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would"
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them"
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories"
"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best"
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand"
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence"
"For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love"
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities"
"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees"
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them"
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know"
"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl"
"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night"
"Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self"
"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it"
"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion"
"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity"
"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity"
"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through"
"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion"
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"
"There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life"
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope"
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism"
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms"
"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury"
"There are many victories worse than a defeat"
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down"
"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words"
"The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief"
"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world"
"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life"
"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance"
"That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise"
"Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive"
"Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar"
"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within"
"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life"
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe"
"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other"
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms"
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love"
"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment"
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry"
"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down"
"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other"
