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.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

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.

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.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.