More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

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

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.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.