I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.