One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.