Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

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.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.