Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.