Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
Dignity and love do not blend.
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.
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.
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.