Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.