The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.