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

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.