To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
You read the past in some old faces.
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? – come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
What woman, however old, has not the bridal favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart of a part of its own pain?
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
We see flowers of good blooming in foul places.
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
