The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.