Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.