“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.”

“our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness”

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.”

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”

“Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.”