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

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.