Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

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

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.