he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.
We are ourselves our happiness.
Business before pleasure.
Shopping, true feminine felicity!
Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.