We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Justice satisfies everybody.

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

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.