Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Fate laughs at probabilities.