Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.