Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

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.

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

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

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 . . .

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.