A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.

Haste is always ungraceful.

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.