Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
[Death:] The one inexorable thing!
The hand betrays the heart.
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.
I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!