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.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

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.

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

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.