Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.