Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.