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.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.