I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.