Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or an idea, but is really some stronger material force.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dulness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.