I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.