The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.