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.

Love knows nothing of modesty.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.