The honor of woman is badly guarded when it is guarded by keys and spies. No woman is honest who does not wish to be.—Adrian Dupuy.
Words.—There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words, the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.—Fredrika Bremer.
Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.—Richter.
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.—Douglas Jerrold.
Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see.—Joubert.
If we use common words on a great occasion they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or every-day clothes, hung up in a sacred place.—George Eliot.
Words are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.—Colton.
World.—The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.—Horace Walpole.
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.—Goldsmith.
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.—Chamfort.