Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Duty is the demand of the hour.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.