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.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.