Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.