I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination – it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon – that which raises it from earth.
We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear?
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
