The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.