Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.