It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.