Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.