The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.