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

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

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.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.