God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Women are proverbially credulous.

Sensibility is the power of woman.