There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

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

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.