A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.