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

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.