And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.