With faces like dead lovers who died true.

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.