I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

Sneering 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.

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

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.