The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.