With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.