The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Life and hope must cease together.