But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.