He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.