Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

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

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.