I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

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.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

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