Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.