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

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.