Musicians are seldom unemotional; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed. Girls brought up [as you wer...e,] in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined. Those are the girls that make bad wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lov...er swooning under his lady's window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's ...life would only serve to make a chronological table--a fool's notion of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature...s are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »