What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.