A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

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.

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

There is no cosmetic like happiness

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.