Shopping, true feminine felicity!

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.