It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.