Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

My heart is its own grave!

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

... 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.

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