It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Civility cost nothing.

The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.