There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.