Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.