That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

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.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.