Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.
Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Where the heart is the mind works best.
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.
Mothers can forgive anything!