Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

There are words which cut like steel.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.