When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.