Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"