There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

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

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.