We cannot reform our forefathers.
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
A good horse makes short miles.
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.