in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.