When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.

At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.