Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

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

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

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

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.