Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

But he’d loved only Eby. You didn't need a mirror to tell you that you were beautiful when you had proof like that.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.