It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
From F. H. Bradley
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Another occupation might have been better.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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