“Genius can never despise labour.”

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.

Genius is clairvoyant.

Labor is the law of happiness.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.