When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.