Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.