The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

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

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.