We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy.... It is in our follies that we are one.
Me Tarzan, you Jane.
