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.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone