In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.