Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

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.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

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.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.