I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

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!

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.