Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

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.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.