No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another’s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifet...
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little...
But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they...
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble o...
Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.
This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak...
The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....
Matrimony is a serious thing.
In all we do, and hear, and see,Is restless Toil and Vanity.While yet the rolling earth abides,Men come and go like ocean tides
I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me...
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.
Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?
Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.
She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insuffici...
One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.