Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.