I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

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.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.