Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.