Hearts live by being wounded.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.