No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.