A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
Never say more than is necessary.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.