Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

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.