It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.