I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.