That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.