Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.