Ah! the soft starlight of virgin eyes.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.