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

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

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.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

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

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 never jealousy where there is not strong regard.