why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.