"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."