To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.