“Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.”
“I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.”
“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
“To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ”
“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.”
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.”