Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.