Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

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

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

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.

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