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.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

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

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.