Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.
Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.