Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.