It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.