An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

The union of a want and a sentiment.