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

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

Humor is wit and love.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

True love is better than glory.

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.