Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.
Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love.
Firmness is great; persistency is greater.
If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.