The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.