Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

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.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.