All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.