Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.