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.

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

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

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

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

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.