All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
After all, the true seeing is within.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
A woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel.
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
