Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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.
War makes rattling good history.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.