We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.