Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

... 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.