Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.