In a democracy$$$ someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Most people$$$ in fact$$$ will not take the trouble in finding out the truth$$$ but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect$$$ and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower<br/>Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees<br/>Is my destroyer

Going slowly was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There$$$ and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.

A clever$$$ ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies$$$ but a handsome fool is irresistible.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

The wicked are wicked$$$ no doubt$$$ and they go astray and they fall$$$ and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

The moral world has no particular objection to vice$$$ but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.