The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Confidence is its own security.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

We are ourselves our happiness.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.