“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

“Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.”

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”

“There is more in every person's soul than we think.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”