There is a skeleton in every house.

The best of women are hypocrites.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.