never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.