The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.