I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

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.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.