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

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.