What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Birth our night into dayAnd bathe it clean, So that beloved things can glowTogether in a litter of light.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

Baby Steps are for Babies, Not Brands. Be Amazing or Be Surpassed.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.