At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.