Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.