The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Love which economizes is never true love.