There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

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

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

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

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.