There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.