Business first, then pleasure.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.