All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.