From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

The more one judges, the less one loves.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.