In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
Youth is a season that has no repose.