Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.