And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.