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.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

We are ourselves our happiness.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.