Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

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

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

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

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

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