Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.