“Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art…” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

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