Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.