Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.