To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.