Confidence is its own security.

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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.

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

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

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.