Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.