The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

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.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.