adversity is so rough a teacher!
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.