When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.