Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

The world is the same everywhere.

Years teach us more than books.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

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.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.