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| A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool’s coat still. | 1 |
| Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice. | 2 |
| Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such. | 3 |
| Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. | 4 |
| Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. | 5 |
| Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. | 6 |
| History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events. | 7 |
| If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. | 8 |
| In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. | 9 |
| Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. | 10 |
| It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. | 11 |
| It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters. | 12 |
| It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. | 13 |
| It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities. | 14 |
| It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. | 15 |
| Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything. | 16 |
| Mutability is written upon all things. | 17 |
| Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity. | 18 |
| Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. | 19 |
| Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. | 20 |
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| Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. | 21 |
| Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors. | 22 |
| Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. | 23 |
| Silence never yet betrayed any one! | 24 |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. | 25 |
| Speech is the vestment of thought, and expression its armor. | 26 |
| Tenderness is the infancy of love. | 27 |
| That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart. | 28 |
| The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. | 29 |
| The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. | 30 |
| The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. | 31 |
| The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy. | 32 |
| The monuments of mutability. | 33 |
| The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. | 34 |
| The personal pronoun “I” should be the coat of arms of some individuals. | 35 |
| The stampede of our self-possession. | 36 |
| The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. | 37 |
| The woman who has too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. | 38 |
| The world is governed by love,—self-love. | 39 |
| There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one. | 40 |
| There is even the dignity of vice. | 41 |
| There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. | 42 |
| To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. | 43 |
| To lose one’s self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. | 44 |
| True felicity consists of its own consciousness. | 45 |
| Vices are often habits rather than passions. | 46 |
| Women read each other at a single glance. | 47 |
| Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. | 48 |
| Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. | 49 |
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