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.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.