It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.