Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

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Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

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