Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Manners form the great charm of women.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.