Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.