Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

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

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.