Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.