In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.