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

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

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.

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

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

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.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.