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

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?