If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.