“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.