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

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

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

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.