She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's capric...
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda
In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifl...
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
