An envious woman is a spark from Purgatory.
The consciousness that we have anything to hide from the world
stretches a veil between our souls and heaven. We cannot reach up to
meet the gaze of God, when we are afraid to meet the eyes of men.
It may be all very well for two people to make their own laws, but
they have no right to force a third to live by them.
Virtue is very secretive about her payments, but the whole world
hears of it when vice settles up.
We have a sublime contempt for public opinion theoretically so long
as it favours us. When it turns against us we suffer intensely from
the loss of what we claimed to despise.
When the fruit must apologise for the tree, we do not care to save
the seed.
It is only when God and man have formed a syndicate and agreed upon
their laws, that marriage is a safe investment.
The love that does not protect its object would better change its
name.
When we say OF people what we would not say TO them, we are either
liars or cowards.
The enmity of some people is the greatest compliment they can pay us.
It was in thoughts like these that Joy relieved her heart of some of
the bitterness and sorrow which weighed upon it. And day after day
she bore about with her the dread of having the story of her mother's
sin known in her new home.
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