fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.