The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.