Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Is but the threshold of eternity.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.