Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
There is, perhaps, no class of men on the face of the earth, says Captain Bonneville, who lead a life of more continued exertion, peril, and excitement, and who are more enamored of their occupations,...
To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the Alhambra is a much an object of devotion as is the Caaba to all...
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera posada está tan llena de aventuras como un castillo encantado y cada comida es en sí un logro! ¡Que se queje...
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.