Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Happy? asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.
Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Life is a business transaction.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the cont...
However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to t...
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Modesty is the conscience of the body.
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.
No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a...