What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.