Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Eternity was in that moment.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

I am not [:] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds …

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.-'Abou…