The vain being is the really solitary being.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.