Who said “The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant…”?

“Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

“Woman absent is woman dead.”

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”

“Petty laws breed great crimes.”

“Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.”

“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.”

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

“In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.”