Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Ink is the transcript of thought.