We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.