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

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

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

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

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

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

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.