I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.