Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

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

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

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 . . .

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

Death makes us all equal.