A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.