Necessity is the spur of genius.

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

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.