Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

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

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.