[A] smile is hovering about her lips, as if some playful speech were awaiting the right hearer. – George Eliot, “Another Love-Scene,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. – Hu Shih
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth — and endures all the rest. – Helen Rowland
