True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.