To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

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

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.