Haste Is A Poor Counselor

There Are Two Ways Of Seeing: With The Body And With The Soul. The Body's Sight Can Sometimes Forget, But The Soul Remembers Forever.

How Is It That Little Children Are So Intelligent And Men So Stupid? It Must Be Education That Does It.

For In Those Tacit Understandings Which Maintain The Bond Of Family Union, The Mother Is Really The Mistress Of Her Daughter Only Upon The Condition Of Continually Presenting Herself To Her As A Model Of Wisdom And Type Of Perfection.

Those Born To Wealth, And Who Have The Means Of Gratifying Every Wish, Know Not What Is The Real Happiness Of Life, Just As Those Who Have Been Tossed On The Stormy Waters Of The Ocean On A Few Frail Planks Can Alone Realize The Blessings Of Fair Weather.

To Be A Woman Condemned To A Wretched And Disgraceful Punishment Is No Impediment To Beauty, But It Is An Insurmountable Obstacle To Power. Like All Persons Of Real Genius, Her Ladyship Well Knew What Accorded With Her Nature And Her Means. Poverty Disgusted Her -subjection Deprived Her Of Two-thirds Of Her Greatness. Her Ladyship Was Only A Queen Amongst Queens: The Enjoyment Of Satisfied Pride Was Essential To Her Sway. To Command Beings Of An Inferior Nature, Was, To Her, Rather A Humiliation Than A Pleasure.