Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.