Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Be thine own privy counsellor.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.