The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life