Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.