Sympathy

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

It was simply that she could not go away.

Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance

Love those who love you.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.