With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Modesty was made for the ugly.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.