The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.