When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space.

A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.