Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.