The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Gossip

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Sports

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.