In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.