Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

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

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.