The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

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.

Confidence is its own security.