Life is the soul's nursery.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

There is a skeleton in every house.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.