Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Read to live, not live to read.