The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

There are words which cut like steel.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.