Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.