The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.