There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.