To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

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

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.

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.

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