Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.