Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.