Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.