When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

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

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

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