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.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.