What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

Why is youth so short and age so long?