It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

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.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

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