Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.