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

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.