There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

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

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

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.