Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.