Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

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

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.