It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Pain, thou art not an evil

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.