People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.