It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.