Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless thy win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Generosity is the flower of justice.

He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, unless we were meant to be immortal.