It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?