To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.