All perfection is melancholy..

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children..

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit..

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?.

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few hu….

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves..

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought..

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others..

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolutio….

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears..

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as….

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming..

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved..

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent..

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do..

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do….

There's looks as speaks as strong as words..

There is nothing so costly as bargains..

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so l….

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society..

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of yo….