When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success