Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.