One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.