Elegance is exquisite polish.
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.