Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

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.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.