Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

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.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

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.

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.