Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

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

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

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.