He knew his own heart was withered by the world and by politics, and he felt that he was giving in exchange for a dawning life the remains of a worn-out existence.

Beside those springtide flowers he was putting the ice of winter; hoary experience with young and innocent ignorance.

After soberly judging the position, he took up his conjugal career with ample precaution; indulgence and perfect confidence were the two anchors to which he moored it.

Mothers of families ought to seek such men for their daughters.

A good mind protects like a divinity; disenchantment is as keen-sighted as a surgeon; experience as foreseeing as a mother.