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.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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

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.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.