Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.