To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.