Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
Vivacity is the health of the spirit.
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.