Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.