Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.