The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?