Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.