Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.