Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

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

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

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