Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

A woman only can understand a woman.

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

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.