Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.