No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.