Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.