Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Where words leave off, music begins.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid