A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Men are respectable only as they respect

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold