Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.