We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

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.

Nature's hasty conscience.

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

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