Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Years teach us more than books.

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.

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

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

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

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.