A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.