Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.