All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.
Shopping, true feminine felicity!
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Youth is a season that has no repose.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
The stars are so far, far away!
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.
doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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