Love is cruel as the grave.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.