To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Make your best thoughts into action.
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.