I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

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

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.