To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

It is always the secure who are humble.