Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.