Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.