Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

A woman only can understand a woman.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.