One hour with Mother is more than Without her, an age.
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.
Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.