Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es