The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.