Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.