A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.
Danger for danger's sake is senseless.
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.
One can love any man that is generous.
Patience and gentleness is power.
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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