Taste may change, but inclination never.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.