A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.