Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

The fearless make their own way.