The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.