The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.