There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.