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

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

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

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.

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.

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

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.