The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?