Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Pleasure being caused by the union of sensation and sentiment, we can say without fear of contradiction that pleasures are a sort of material ideas.
Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Passions are as mean as they are cruel.
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.
Our fleeting happiness here below is the forerunning proof of another and a perfect happiness, just as the earth, a fragment of the world, attests the universe.
Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.
One thought borne inward, one prayer uplifted, one suffering endured, one echo of the Word within us, and our souls are forever changed.
One of the most important rules in the science of manners is that of almost absolute silence about ourselves.
Old men alone have time to love; young men are rowing the galleys of ambition.
Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.
