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.
Why is youth so short and age so long?
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.