The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!