It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

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

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

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

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.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.