There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

Time, time will heal the wound.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.