The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.