All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.