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

The fearless make their own way.

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

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.