For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold