Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!