“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.