I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.