What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.