Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality