Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.