I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.