Beware of creating tedium!

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.