What's money without happiness?

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.