It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.