“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
“The examples seemed to fall into two categories: girls who used sweetness and girls who used pluck.”
“They think there are only two kinds of young women in China: good girls or prostitutes.”
“A man has two reasons for doing something; a good reason and the real reason.”
“Pain is pain, whether it be inflicted on man or beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of the misery of it while it lasts, suffers evil and the sufferance of evil, unmerited, unprovoked, where no offence has been given, and no good can possibly be answered by it, but merely to exhibit power or gratify malice, is Cruelty and Injustice in him that occasions is.”
“Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.”