All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.