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.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.