Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.