The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

A born king is a very rare being.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!