Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.