Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

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

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.