When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.
Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
Pride is never so loud as when in chains.