Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

Humans' eyes cannot take in information when there is zero light reflecting back

I want my life to mean something!

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.