There is no magician like love.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.