I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me