They say that Love is an electric spark, also a magnetic influence. But no doubt it is like a current of air, which, if strong, blows out a small fire, and increases a large one.


The worst conflagration may, it is said, be extinguished by water. But many tears have failed to extinguish the fire which burns in some hearts.

The rope always breaks in the thinnest place.


Of the many who are indifferent to the presence of grandeur or pathos, some sleep, some laugh, and a few yawn candidly.


Behold the injustice of the world, because the great grand-father once killed a cat in his village, the family has ever since been called «Cat-killer!»