I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.