Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.