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

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

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

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.