There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.