Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

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

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

To be rude is as good as being clever.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

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

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.