It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.