Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.