To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.
It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
Better is the enemy of good.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.