He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

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

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.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

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.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.