God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
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