A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding cloths. Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Good breeding shows itself most where, to an ordinary eye, it appears least. He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. To be an athiest requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which athiesm would deny. Great souls by instinct to each other turn.