We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers