Time cancels young pain.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
None wise dares hopeless venture.
Women’s love is for their men, not for their children.
Today’s today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
No one is happy all his life long.
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.