Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

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.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

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