The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.