Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.