Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

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

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

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

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

Business before pleasure.