The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings and resolves are the last of their kind.

It's never too late to be who you might have been.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draft of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.