A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run |
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life |
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life |
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan |
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. |
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness |
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness |
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic |
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you |
Petty laws breed great crimes |
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. |
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery |