At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.