who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

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 nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.