The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

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

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.