It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.