Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.