We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.