When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.