Obligation is the bitterest thraldom.
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
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.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.