Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

There is a sacredness in tears

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.