Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.