Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
She commands who is blest with indifference.
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.