Women love energy and grand results.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.