Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.