If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. – Horace
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas Henry Huxley
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: thats a good thing born from a bad thing. – Joseph Joubert
