It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.