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| A beautiful woman without principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze. | 1 |
| A German writer observes: “Tho noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.” | 2 |
| A woman should not paint sentiment till she has ceased to inspire it. | 3 |
| A woman’s head is always influenced by her heart; but a man’s heart is always influenced by his head. | 4 |
| Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. | 5 |
| Friends are the thermometers by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. | 6 |
| Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. | 7 |
| Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. | 8 |
| Love often reillumes his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. | 9 |
| Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. | 10 |
| Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul. | 11 |
| Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. | 12 |
| Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. | 13 |
| Satire often proceeds less from ill nature than a desire to display wit. | 14 |
| Superstition is but the fear of belief. | 15 |
| Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. | 16 |
| The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. | 17 |
| There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart. | 18 |
| Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. | 19 |
| Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pen, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty. | 20 |
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| When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage! | 21 |
| Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,—they are better critics than authors. | 22 |
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