There are words which cut like steel.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.