Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

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

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.