If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

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.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman