We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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