...the greatest tyrants over women are women. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'Tomorrow, success or failure won't matter much: and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.