Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.