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The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

One can love any man that is generous.

If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Patience and gentleness is power.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ...

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Improvement is nature.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.