Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

The beautiful is never plentiful.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.