The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

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