We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

The curse of the great is ennui.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.