Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.