Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.