Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.