Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

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

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

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