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.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.