It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

Curiosity is its own suicide.