There are words which cut like steel.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.