The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

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

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

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.

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

Youth is a season that has no repose.