A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Consistency, madam, is the first of christian duties.
Conventionality is not morality.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Look twice before you leap.
You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Let your performance do the thinking.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Who has words at the right moment?
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
