Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.