There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.