There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

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.

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.