It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

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

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

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