Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. - George Eliot

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

[Mr Johnson] "You know what a Tory is – one who wants to drive the working men as he'd drive cattle."

There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.