No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.