The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
A vow is a snare for sin.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
