Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.