It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.