Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give..

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear..

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much..

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!.

It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger..

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget..

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present..

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she….

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched..

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics..

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both..

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return..

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at..

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact..

wit is often its own worst enemy..

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice..

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of ….

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action..

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow..

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves..

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break….