Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.