True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.