Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

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.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

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

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

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.