Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.