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.

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.