Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.