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

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

There is no cosmetic like happiness