Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

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

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

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

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

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

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.