A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.