People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

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