The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

No woman dares express all she thinks.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.