Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other read more

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.

Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought read more

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Fair and softly goes far.

Fair and softly goes far.

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance read more

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.