To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

Great souls suffer in silence.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.