The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Make your best thoughts into action.
Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.
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.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.