Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Hope is the best part of our riches.
Winter is the night of vegetation.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.