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.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Years teach us more than books.

The world is the same everywhere.