What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.