History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside itself – it only requires opportunity.
But what is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another!
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring.
