It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.
Every reformation ruins somebody.
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.