The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

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

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.