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

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

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