“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

“In my opinion," said Lydgate, "legal training only makes a man more incompetent in questions that require knowledge of another kind.”

“People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.”

“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.”

“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

“Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.”

“what is opportunity to a man who can't use it.”