Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.