Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts — they read another's better than they can their own.

For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.

Whoever believes in the good in people, draws forth the good in people.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

Weaklings must lie.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Live your life and forget your age.