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

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

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.

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