How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

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

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.