Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.