We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.