It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.