One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.