The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.