Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

Abuse is an indirect species of homage.