We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.