You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

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.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

Haste is a poor counselor

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.