1. “If an offence come out of the truth better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
2. “Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
3. “The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.”
4. “My argument is that war makes rattling good history; but peace is poor reading .”
5. “A man’s silence is wonderful to listen.”
6. “Fear is the mother of foresight.”
7. “The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
8. “There is a condition worse than blindness, an that is, seeing something that is isn’t there”
9. “Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.”
10. “Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
11. “A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.”
12. “Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.”
13. “A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
14. “It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
15. “No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.”
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